Brave works with all the same extensions and themes as Chrome. Brave is based on the same open-source Chromium code as a number of other browsers, so your favorite extensions just work with Brave. We don’t host our own extensions store though, so for now the best place to find extensions is the Chrome Web Store. Since both Brave Browser and Chrome are based on Chromium, Brave supports a decent amount of extensions of Web Store but Chrome supports all the extensions of Web Store. So in the battle of extension support between Brave Browser vs Google Chrome, Chrome wins. But since Chrome has a large amount of extension, it has a great threat to security.
Built to block ads and trackers, Brave boasts that their browser can attain speeds twice that of Chrome. Where Brave differs from many other ad-blocking platforms is that it was designed to create. Downside of using Brave. While Brave may be faster and more secure it does come with some drawbacks you need to consider. A lot of criticism in previous articles mentioned the lack of add-ons and extensions but this has now been fixed and all Chrome extensions are now available in Brave. For developers there still isn’t anything to beat Chrome’s dev tools.
Although Brave Browser is based off Chromium, the open-source version of Chrome, Brave strips back and turns off a lot of features in order to keep it running as fast and smooth as possible. Whilst that is very much welcomed, there are some features which we may miss from Chrome that we want to have in Brave. Being able to enable Chromecast in Brave Browser is one of those features.
To enable Chromecast on Brave, simply use the following steps.
Download Brave Browser
First of all, make sure you are on the latest version of Brave, which can be downloaded here. There were a lot of improvements to the casting feature towards the end of 2019 so its best to ensure you are up to date, and have a bug and trouble free experience.
Get Into The Settings
Head to Hamburger menu in the top right of Brave.
Go down to “Settings”.
Brave Chrome
Scroll all the way down to the bottom where you will see the section titled “Media Router”. This is the switch we need to set to “On” so we can start connecting to our Chromecast.
Brave Chrome Os
You will probably be asked to relaunch Brave Browser, simply hit Relaunch Now.
Brave Chromecast
Once restarted, head back to the Hamburger menu. You should see a new entry called “Cast”. Simply hit this and you should be good to go!